He did so on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York. In response to a question regarding Obama's Tuesday speech, Lavrov was diplomatically discreet, saying:

He "addressed important issues, and he stated willingness to cooperate on resolving problems in the Middle East and to help us find common approaches, which is the key for the international community."

This writer called his address imperial mumbo jumbo. It featured beginning-to-end bald-faced lies.

They followed in rapid fire succession. They didn't pass the smell test. They didn't rise to the level of bad fiction.

America's waging war on humanity. One country after another is ravaged. Millions of lives are lost.

Obama's been involved throughout his tenure. He threatens global war. Lavrov knows. He diplomatically stopped short of explaining.

He addressed Assad agreeing to destroy his chemical weapons, saying:

"The chemical weapons problem in Syria is first of all an issue for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)."

"The president of Syria addressed the secretary general of the United Nations and the director general of the OPCW with a formal request to accede to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)."

He's "under legal obligation derived from" CWC to abide by its provisions. He said he'll fully comply. He's got every incentive to do so.

(5) All CWs must be destroyed by mid-2014. No precise date was stipulated.

(6) The UN will provide logistical support and compliance assurance with what's agreed on.

Lavrov said Russia is "committed to implement (these provisions) fully." The threat of chemical weapons use is real, he stressed.

Putin and Obama agreed earlier to investigate reports of their use and deliver results to the Security Council.

"By the time they met on the margins of the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg on the 5th of September, they had a talk about some practical steps which could be taken to resolve the problem of chemical weapons in Syria once and for all," said Lavrov.

"We initiated through John Kerry's statement and my support of that statement the process which is now underway."

"And we are gratified that the Syrian government responded very efficiently and promptly."

Lavrov stressed insurgents' responsibility for chemical weapons attacks. "(W)e believe there is very good evidence to substantiate this," he said.

He "presented a compilation of evidence to John Kerry when (they) met a couple of hours ago."

"This evidence is not something revolutionary. It's available on the Internet."

"There are reports by journalists who visited the sites and talked to the combatants, who said they were given some unusual rockets and ammunition by some foreign country and they didn't know how to use them."

"There is also evidence from the nuns living in the monastery nearby who visited the site."

"You can read the assessments by the chemical weapons experts who say that the images shown do not correspond to a real situation if chemical weapons were used."

"And we also know about the open letter sent to President Obama by former operatives of the CIA saying the assertion that the (Syrian) government used chemical weapons was fake."

"So you don't need to have any spy reports to make your own conclusions, you only need to carefully watch what is available in public."

Lavrov said he has no additional intelligence reports. Days earlier he said:

"We have plenty of reports on chemical weapons use, which indicate that the opposition regularly resorts to provocations in order to trigger strikes and intervention against Syria."

"There's a lot of data. (O)ur experts put (it) together in association with the use of chemical weapons in Aleppo in March this year."

"(T)he report included detailed scientific analysis of samples that Russian technicians collected at the site of the alleged attack, Khan al Asal in northern Syria. The attack killed 26 people." Another 86 were harmed.

At the time, UN spokesman Farhan Haq acknowledged receiving the report. It wasn't released. It was ignored. It was suppressed.

On the one hand, they said environmental "samples were taken from impact sites and surrounding areas."

(A)ccording to the reports received received from the OPCW-designated laboratories, the presence of Sarin, its degradation and/or production by-products were observed in a majority of the samples," they added.

On the other, they said charts don't indicate where samples were collected. According to Narwani, findings just included "dates, codes assigned to the samples, description of the samples and then the CW testing results from two separate laboratories."

Close examination "shows a massive discrepancy in lab results from east and west Ghouta. There is not a single sample in Moadamiyah that tested positive for Sarin."

Failure to do so is crucially important, said Narwani. Moadamiyah victims "tested highest for Sarin expose," she explained.

"It is scientifically improbable that survivors would test that highly for exposure to Sarin without a single trace of environmental evidence testing positive for the chemical agent," she added.

"A military source told SANA reporter that an army unit seized a car for terrorists loaded with large quantities of weapons and ammunition in Mahjjeh town, including four Lao Israeli-made missiles, 36 mortar rounds of 60 mm and a variety of ammunition."